One-shot wonder social gaming publisher GungHo Online’s days of outstripping Nintendo in market cap look to be well and truly over – the company’s value has plunged by over a third in mere days, leaving nobody in any doubt as to the permanence of social gaming’s ascendancy.

Even so, the company probably still has a very long way to fall, as it attained almost all of its value in the last few months of its 15 year history:

Japan’s stock markets appear to have been overheated by unrealistic (or premature) expectations of Abenomics and this resulted in a record drop for the entire market, but the collapse of GungHo’s share price began well before this, and tellingly Nintendo was left almost untouched:

Meanwhile, Sony has become a market darling on the news that it has already won the console war for the next generation and likely has years of gleefully crushing Xboxes underfoot ahead of it:

Apple isn't doing horribly. That was much like facebook, where there was really nothing there but what you saw. Apple does deal in physical products (that happen to deal in air :P) so they actually do have merit in what they do, even though I dislike their products and their practices myself.

Apple actually does design their own chips for the iOS line.
This is why they perform so well the OS and hardware are very tightly coupled.
I'm not an apple fan boy but just about every other tablet generally feels somewhat clunky compared to the ipad.

Anyone thinking that social gaming was anything but a quick bubble was completely out of their mind. If was able to survive the long haul then video game companies who have long gone out of business would have made it. There was a long established pattern of this sort of video game market bubbles, all you had to do is look at the market as a whole.

The who won the eighth generation is also unrealistically premature bullshit. At bare minimum we need to see E3.

Overcrowded is the problem. Unfortunately they're trying to hop a trend as the trend is dying. They either must reinvent their social gaming to usher in a new form, or they're going to go with substandard rapid creations like that crap that was posted here the other day and fail even further. For now they can blame Wada, but it really wasn't him who screwed everything up.

Hmm... this doesn't surprise me at all, that's how the stock market works. It reaches a climax, then declines some... then it drops more and more.
Sony's value might continue rising for now, but soon it'll fall again. IIRC the PS4 presentation is in June, depending on what shit they'll offer, their stocks could plummet or rise drastically. Not surprising, just analysis -_-

Well... it works the same with stockings. Just when they sit high and you enjoy them, the woman will start dropping them. She undresses and the stockings are gone!

Go away Yumekichi11! How I know it's you? The internet is a conspiracy network from Japan... to find YOU. Stop your hatred and get a life! And stop posting pics of beheaded pigs on your blog, that's disgusting!

Gung Ho doesn't only work in the mobile/online market, even though they're mostly known for Ragnarok Online and Puzzle & Dragon, they're also doing a lot in the console and handheld market. Including, but not only, this:

Love all the praise for Sony when all they've really announced is they have a console in the works. Microsoft gave more info. I'll laugh so hard when Sony pulls worse stuff than the MS rumors (not fact) state. We know they will, too... its Sony.